Last year on MWC, the revived Nokia under the wing of HMD Global showed 3310, and this year another "legendary" model appeared - Nokia 8110.
The legend of our time is an iPhone. For 10 years he changed the world. We have mastered multi-touch, comfortable touch screens and are used to the fact that a phone without memory cards is the norm. The standard became mobile-adapted sites, applications and gestures.
About anything such a dream 20 years ago did not have to. The mobile phone was just a phone, a means of communication. Identify among the same type of models could only special, unique characteristics or design. The era of color screens and cameras in the horse in the 90's has not yet come, so everything rested on appearance.
The unbelievably beautiful and futuristic work of the Wachowski brothers, the Matrix trilogy (then they were brothers, now they are sisters!) Made the Nokia 8110 an icon of the mobile world.
For the film released a special version of the phone, and later appeared limited edition, all dared by the fans. From the usual 8110 those rare models differed by a special button - you press on it, the flip is automatically shifted and you talk with the subscriber. In the usual Nokia 8110 for conversation it was required to manually move the flip-plastic part, under it the buttons were hidden.
Now describe the phones of that era is very funny. We were happy with simple things like an advanced calculator or a phone book memory for 500 subscribers. Now it's just part of the story, the revived Nokia decided to go through the bins and get the attention of a spoiled audience with a sudden announcement.
Not stupid
If the original Nokia 8110 by modern standards was extremely poor, then its follower is much more interesting in terms of characteristics. Nokia 8110 got Wi-Fi, 4G and other joys like social networks and color screen. Yes, chatting on Facebook here is not very convenient, but at least you will not have to sit alone, you can get in touch with the rest of the world.
Long time running
With the Nokia 8110 you can not sweat at all on the theme of work time. Promise that the phone can withstand 2 weeks without recharging, I think that in practice the figures will be much more modest. Nevertheless, with such a phone without recharging, it's much easier to hang out on a trip than with a gluttonous smartphone with a large screen.
So we will win!
Now Nokia regularly shows new items on Android and funny phones come from childhood and adolescence. Curious strategy, where an unmistakable way to attract attention are retro-models in a new way.
Nokia laughs with us over its past, Nokia 8110 was called a "banana" for the curved shape of the case, so they released the phone in yellow. There will also be a classic - a black version. Others are not expected yet, and it is not necessary.
It's better to leave your strength on Android and show by example that in the future Nokia will do well too, and not only legends of the past, but also modern models will help in this. Still, fans of old-fashioned forms are not so many, otherwise nobody would buy Galaxy, Honor, Xiaomi and other interesting things.
